Harry Potter and The Tomb of Shadows
For Harry Potter it was an altogether quiet ride back from Kings Cross to his summer residence (or his own personal hell as he liked to call it) of the Dursley household. You see, Harry had a lot of things on his mind. Seeing his headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, murdered right in front of him while he was helpless to stop it from happening, had dealt a great blow to the Boy-Who-Lived. He had had his disagreements with the headmaster yes, but never had he wished him dead. Add to that the angst of breaking up with his first real girlfriend and carrying the weight of the world solely on his shoulders because of a prophecy that was made by a seer before he was even born. And that said prophecy had gotten not only his biological parents killed, but the only other person he looked to a parental figure killed also.
Even with all that, the main thing on this young mans mind was the startling new development of the Horcruxes created by Voldemort to gain immortality. Voldemort had split his soul into 7 pieces and sealed the 6 fragments that were not in his body into objects that had some sort of special meaning to him. Harry and Dumbledore together had destroyed 2 of the Horcruxes. And now that the wizened old headmaster was on his next great adventure Harry was basically alone in his fight.
He did have his friends, and they would go to Hell and back with him. He liked that about them; that they cared so much for him as to risk their lives to follow and assist him in his pursuits. They all knew the danger and still stuck with him. But Harry was no longer willing to risk their lives on something that he was starting to take personally. He was determined not to lose any more loved ones just because they were associated with him. He would put an end to Voldemort even if it was the last thing he did on this earth. Harry was rather violently shook from his musings by his Uncle Vernon pulling in the driveway of Number 4 Privet Drive, and yelling at him to get in the house before the neighbors saw him. He complied and got his Hogwarts trunk out of the boot of the car and dragged it with one hand while carrying his pet owl Hedwig, who was in her cage and had been snoozing the whole trip, with the other hand into the house and up the stairs to the sad excuse of a room that the Dursleys let him live in.
Up until the age of 11 they had forced him live in the cupboard under the stairs, so it was at least a little bit of an improvement. He walked in and set Hedwig's cage on the little writing desk in the corner and put his trunk at the foot of his small twin-size bed. He then proceeded to unpack some things from his trunk before stowing them under a loose floorboard so his relatives wouldn't find them. He kept a certain photo album that had pictures of his parents in it. After everything else was put away he sat down on the bed and opened the album. He flipped to the pages of his parents' wedding and sat looking at the pictures thinking of the people in front of him. They were the only family he wanted, but could never have now thanks to Voldemort.
And with those thoughts in mind, Harry's resolve to destroy that inhuman bastard strengthened. A low hoot from Hedwig caused Harry to look up. When he did he noticed that his alarm clock (a broke one of Dudley's that he had found and fixed) said it was seven o'clock. He was just getting up to put the pictures away when he heard his uncle bellow "BOY! Get down here and fix our supper, now!" up the stairs. He stashed the book in his secret hiding place and trudged down the stairs to start supper that he would probably get hardly any of. Nothing eventful happened through dinner, except his aunt and uncle shooting hateful glares at him. He pretended not to notice and kept repeating in his mind that he was honoring Dumbledore's wishes and that he only had to stay until July 31st and then he would be gone and never see them again. After he was done with the little bit of food they allowed him, he got out of his seat and put his plate in the sink before heading up to his room. When got there he decided to turn in early. So after opening the window for Hedwig so she could go out and hunt, he laid down on his bed and started to drift off. The last thought that went through his mind before sleep claimed him was that this summer was going to be one for the record books.
